Miguel Tejada had his second straight game-ending hit Monday as he singled home Terrence Long with the bases loaded in the ninth inning as Oakland tied the longest winning streak in AL history with a 7-6 victory over Kansas City. Oakland, which overcame a 5-0 deficit, equaled the 19 straight wins by the 1906 Chicago White Sox and the 1947 New York Yankees for the fifth-longest streak in major league history and the third longest since 1900.

STREAKING

The Chicago White Sox won their season-high sixth straight game, 5-3 over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday. The White Sox are on their longest winning streak since taking eight straight from June 12-19, 2000. … Tomo Ohka pitched his second career complete game and improved to 5-0 in his last seven starts as the Montreal Expos stifled the Philadelphia Phillies, limiting them to six hits in a 5-1 win. Ohka (13-6), who had not gone the distance in 59 career starts before an 11-hitter in a 9-2 win over San Diego on Aug. 18, handed the Phillies their only other loss in the last 12 games, 6-3 on Aug. 28.

SUPPORTING GREG

Greg Maddux singled and scored to spark a three-run third inning and earn his first win in a month on Monday. Maddux pitched eight strong innings as Atlanta reduced their magic number to nine to win the NL East, by defeating Pittsburgh 5-1. Maddux was 0-2 with two no-decisions in his previous four starts, in which the Braves scored only eight runs.

CUBS KILLER

Despite an 8-13 overall record, Milwaukee's Glendon Rusch has been unbeatable against the Chicago Cubs. He's won all four times against the Cubs this season, including Monday's 4-2 victory in the first game of a doubleheader. Rusch, who gave up two runs and eight hits in six innings, striking out six while walking two, has a seven-game winning streak against Chicago, dating to April 2000.

CLOSING ACT

Arizona first baseman Mark Grace pitched the ninth inning during a 19-1 loss to Los Angeles on Monday. Grace, on the mound for the first time in his 14 big league seasons and stifling laughter, didn't top 70 mph as he provided a bit of comic relief. He retired the first two batters before allowing a home run to Dave Ross.

MILESTONE

Nomar Garciaparra became the fastest Red Sox player to 1,000 hits _ doing it in 746 games _ as he singled home Shea Hillenbrand in the seventh inning on Monday in an 8-4 victory over the New York Yankees. Garciaparra, who also delivered a two-run single in the third, reached the milestone one game faster than Wade Boggs.

TWO-HITTER

St. Louis second baseman Fernando Vina was hit twice by pitches from Cincinnati's Shawn Estes on Monday. He has been struck 17 times this season and 67 during the last three years. When Vina, who was hit in the first inning, got nicked on the shoulder in the fifth, Estes claimed Vina backed into the pitch. After yelling at Vina from the mound, Estes headed to first to confront him before being stopped by second-base umpire Bill Welke. Both benches and bullpens briefly cleared.

SMACKED AROUND

Los Angeles won 19-1 Monday to hand Arizona its worst loss ever, eclipsing a 19-2 defeat at Colorado on June 18, 2000. The Dodgers' 24 hits matched the most since they moved to Los Angeles 44 years ago. It was the most hits ever allowed by Arizona. The biggest margin of victory ever for the Dodgers was 20 runs in Brooklyn's 24-4 win over the Washington Senators on May 24, 1892.

SNAPPED

Cincinnati's Shawn Estes allowed three runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings to win Monday for the first time in four starts since being acquired from the New York Mets on Aug. 15. The Reds ended a three-game losing streak, 5-3 over St. Louis.

FOUR STRIKES

Kerry Wood tied a major league record with a four-strikeout inning Monday. He struck out Milwaukee's Bill Hall with one out in the fourth, but catcher Todd Hundley's throw to first was off and Hall got all the way to third on the error. Wood fanned Ryan Thompson. Paul Bako struck out, but reached base when Wood's wild pitch skipped in the dirt and away from Hundley. Lorraine then struck out swinging to end the inning. Wood is the third Chicago Cubs pitcher to strike out four in one inning, after Jim Davis did in St. Louis on May 27, 1956, and Bill Bonham against Montreal on July 31, 1974.

SPEAKING

"We want bigger things than the wild card. If you're just going for the wild card, you're not pushing yourself." _ Reliever Dustin Hermanson of Boston, which trailed New York by 6 games Monday.

SEASONS

Sept. 4

1916 _ Longtime pitching rivals Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown closed out their careers, by special arrangement, in the same game. Mathewson won the game 10-8.

1928 _ The Boston Braves started a grueling string in which they played nine straight doubleheaders, a major league record.

1941 _ The New York Yankees clinched the pennant on the earliest date in baseball history with a 6-3 victory over Boston.

1966 _ Los Angeles became the first team in major league history to draw more than 2 million at home and on the road as the Dodgers beat the Reds 8-6 in front of 18,670 fans in Cincinnati.

1974 _ Don Wilson of the Houston Astros was replaced by a pinch hitter after pitching eight no-hit innings against Cincinnati. Mike Cosgrove pitched the ninth inning and gave up a leadoff single to Tony Perez for the only hit as the Reds won the game 2-1.

1985 _ Gary Carter hit a pair of solo home runs to tie a major league record and singled in another run to lead the New York Mets to a 9-2 victory over San Diego. Carter's feat followed a three-homer performance the night before as he became the 11th player in major league history to hit five home runs in two games.

1993 _ Jim Abbott threw the New York Yankees' first no-hitter in 10 years, leading them to a 4-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

1995 _ Robin Ventura became the eighth player in major league history _ the first in 25 years _ to hit two grand slams in one game as the Chicago White Sox beat Texas 14-3.

1998 _ The New York Yankees reached 100 wins on the earliest date in major league history _ five days before the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians _ with an 11-6 victory over the Chicago White Sox. The '06 Cubs set the major league record for fewest games to reach 100 victories (132).